Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Had you heard of dealership test tracks? A user experience where the customer can take a test drive on an obstacle course at the dealership. Cross Jeep in Louisville Kentucky made this one

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  1. Hahaha, that's great for city folks that think they're having an off road experience. That's ten times better than some of the job site roads I've encountered. You can always identify them when it snows where I live because they CRAWL!

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    1. well, benefit of the doubt, not that they "Think" they are having an off road experience, but that they feel they are buying a vehicle that CAN be relied on for offroading by simply driving an obstacle course when purchasing one. It's weird to buy a car, that has so many promises and inferences from the advertising, but you can't come close to testing for those claims before you buy the car.
      Most SUVs are over 30 thousand dollars, many around 50k.
      I think that before people blog a fortune like that, they get some proof that the vehicle they are paying for will be able to accomplish most of the claims, and not break, on a simple test drive.
      Oh yeah, those job site roads must be a catastrophe!
      Any and all weather, with whomever has tried to get down the road before you making a mess of it, plus, rain, snow, frost heaves, and whatever else....

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  2. Toyota had one at Daytona a few years back during the race weekend - you could ride with a driver in a Fj, Tacoma or 4Runner - when the got to the "mud puddle" they would crawl thru at about 1 mph. I asked the guy running the track why didn't they accelerate - he said they didn't want to get them dirty. (I guess no one has ever washer their undercarraige before?) I told him it just made it look like they could go fast off terrain and he got pissy and walked off.

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  3. Myself and my three older brothers all owned mid 70' to mid 80' fj40'at the same time and we'd go out and get those mothers buried. Chains, straps and good old fashioned hand come alongs. There wasn't everywhere we wouldn't attempt to go. You could honestly have a couple hundred pounds of mud attached to the undercarriage and drive train. It could take you a couple of hours to get them halfway clean. And god forbid if you waited to the next day and let it harden. Now you'd created some serious work! (although it always made for good stories)

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    1. That's very cool that you and your brothers all enjoyed off roading, and the same type of 4x4, at the same time in life when you could all go enjoy it together. Brothers and off roaders, my compliments! Plus, if any comparative troubleshooting was needed, any of you would have 3 other FJs to check out!

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